As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 70 Mimicry Breathing
"..."

Xu Yan was stunned.

He hasn't figured out how to get close to the other person yet.

The other person stretched out his thigh.

"Don't look at me like that. I can't help you with guidance and meditation. You must go to Dawn City and consult a true master."

Long Jianhuan shrugged. "However, if you want to learn the Mimic Breathing Technique, I can teach you. Just consider it as your reward for helping me maintain the 'Scorching Sun Lion'."

"Can, is it okay?"

Xu Yan was overjoyed.

In the past month, he has consulted a lot of information and learned that after thousands of years of negotiation and exploration, the human beings of this era have built a fairly complete theory of controlling spirits.

The most solid foundation of the entire building is "breathing technique", "guiding technique" and "meditation method".

The "Wheel of Life Guidance Technique" originated from the martial arts secrets "Nine-Star Celestial Drive" and "Secrets of the Star Wheel" in the early Second Era.

It also integrates the rituals of multiple sects of the first era, the "biological magnetic vortex hypothesis" of the third era, and other practice methods from different eras.

From bottom to top, from the spine to the limbs to the brain, the human body's magnetic field is divided into nine chakras, including "root chakra, abdominal chakra... earth soul chakra, water essence chakra", etc.

Through practicing different asanas, the chakras can be driven to operate at high speed, which can promote mitochondrial activity, enhance the response of the nerve plexus, strengthen the prostate, thyroid, thymus, pineal gland and pituitary gland, thereby improving the level of life, breaking the limits of the human body and awakening the power deep in the mind.

The Mind Palace Meditation Method cultivates the mind into a fortress as strong as steel through deep meditation.

The nine chakras in the human body correspond to the nine steps of the palace of the mind.

The first stage is to visualize that deep within your heart there is an unfathomable ocean.

This ocean symbolizes the ancestral memory hidden deep within cells and even gene chains. It is the origin of life and the innate cornerstone.

The second stage is to visualize a magnificent island rising from the depths of the primordial ocean.

The island is filled with birds and beasts, which fight each other according to the law of natural selection, and the cycle continues.

These beasts symbolize the primitive instincts of human beings, also known as "animal nature".

The third stage is to visualize a solemn and majestic tree growing on the "Island of Beastly Nature".

This tree is the self, the law, and the humanity sublimated from animality.

The fourth stage: when the tree of humanity, nourished and restrained by the law, grows taller and taller, reaching the sky, it will reach the palace of the mind towering above the clouds.

From this stage, humanity gradually sublimates into divinity.

Afterwards, the meditator must build stairs in the palace of the mind, open the door, cast a throne, build an altar, and ignite the sacred fire.

In the end, one must even treat the magnificent palace of the mind as a cage that imprisons one's will. Only by breaking out of the cage and shattering the void can one see the truest and clearest self.

At this stage, human will becomes as strong as steel and inviolable.

Daoyin technique stimulates the flesh and blood.

Meditation strengthens the mind.

With the two combined, even the old gods and demons can be subdued.

The common basis of "Wheel of Life" and "Palace of the Mind" is "Mimetic Breathing"!
"Mimetic Breathing Method" simulates all living things in nature and conducts efficient energy circulation.

From the simplest "monkey's breath" to the "snake's breath, insect's breath, leaf's breath, and fungus's breath" that are very different from the human body.

From the breathing of animals and plants to the simulation of weather "breathing of clouds and breathing of thunder".

There is even the "Breath of the Earth" that simulates the movement of earth veins and the eruption of magma, as well as the "Breath of the Stars" that simulates stellar storms and sunspot explosions.

If one can practice the "Mimetic Breathing Method" to perfection.

If you continue to practice "Wheel of Life" and "Palace of the Mind", and then practice the art of controlling spirits, you will be able to make rapid progress and advance by leaps and bounds.

I have been in Rolling Stone Castle for more than a month.

"Mimetic Breathing Technique" is what Xu Yan desires most besides "Silver Tongue" Riley.

There are many "Spirit Training Classes" in Rolling Stone Castle, which claim to have hired top teachers from Dawn City at high salaries and opened crash courses on "Mimetic Breathing Method".

But after his observation, he found that they were all a bunch of unscrupulous liars.

Coming from a prestigious and upright sect like the Wanhun Sect, Xu Yan knows better than anyone the importance of laying a solid foundation.

The education and training market is a mixed bag, with both good and bad providers. He was reluctant to take this crucial first step rashly. Long Jianhuan came from a family of scholars.

Nature is ten thousand times more reliable than the so-called "gold medal teacher".

"Don't get too excited just yet. Official citizens of the Heroic Spirit Alliance usually start learning breathing techniques at the age of seven. Some children of the Imperial Spirit families even start learning at the age of three. It takes a full ten years to lay a solid foundation."

Long Jianhuan said, "You've already passed puberty, your organs are basically formed, and you've learned too much nonsense in the wilderness, and your body has been hollowed out by the spiritual erosion. I'm not sure if it's too late for you to get started now. So, let's do a small test first."

She asked Xu Yan to stand sideways with his hands raised.

Then, he clenched his right fist, extended his thumb, and pressed Xu Yan's spine one section at a time from bottom to top.

He clenched his left hand and gently placed it on Xu Yan's chest.

"Next, I will apply a certain amount of pressure to your lungs, making you feel like you are suffocating, and you will use all your strength to resist the pressure and try to breathe."

Long Jianhuan thought for a moment and added, "It might be a little uncomfortable. This set of techniques was originally used to test beginners. You've passed puberty, your fascia has thickened, your bones have become fixed, and your body is filled with impurities. It won't be so easy to break through the blockage."

Xu Yan nodded to show that he understood.

"here we go."

Long Jianhuan slowly exerted his strength.

The fist turned slightly red and sank into Xu Yan's chest.

His thumb continued to press Xu Yan's spine, interrupting his breathing rhythm.

Xu Yan narrowed his eyes.

I felt as if a huge rock weighing a thousand pounds was pressing on my chest.

No, it's a red-hot steel plate weighing thousands of pounds.

The feeling of suffocation penetrated from the chest and abdomen through the spine, and then rose all the way to the brain, as if the entire brain was tightly suppressed by an iron lock, making me see stars and my face flush.

"Very good, I feel your vitality."

Long Jianhuan exerted his strength while giving instructions, "Imagine yourself as a baby that has just been separated from its mother's body, breathing its first breath of air in this world, and even making a 'wa wa' cry!"

Xu Yan gritted his teeth, feeling that this "baby" of his was having a difficult birth.

"That's it. Let the vitality surge, break through my obstacles, and breathe with all my might!"

Xu Yan's eyes were bloodshot, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, but his trachea seemed to be blocked by an invisible boulder. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move at all.

“If imagining yourself as a baby doesn’t work, then imagine yourself as a drowning person, in the boundless ocean, facing an unfathomable whirlpool, trying to breathe the last breath of air in the world!”

Long Jianhuan encouraged, "Come on, you can do it!"

"call--"

Just when the lung lobe was about to burst.

Xu Yan finally broke through the obstacle.

His breathing was so violent that the air flow formed a visible vortex between his mouth and nose.

Driven by his breathing, his brain waves seemed to turn into a flood and a beast, flowing down along the spine and gushing out from the pores on both sides of the spine, actually bouncing Long Jianhuan's thumb away.

A strange look flashed in Long Jianhuan's eyes.

"How does it feel?"

She turned her fingers into palms and gently patted Xu Yan's back.

"Hu, hu, hu!"

Xu Yan held his knees with both hands, sweating profusely, gasping for breath, and enjoying the pleasure of his blood oxygen rushing.

"I can still hold on."

Xu Yan asked, "Captain Long, is there still time for me to learn the Mimic Breathing Technique?"

“It’s better than I thought.”

Long Jianhuan's eyes were deep. "Come, put your hands between my chest and abdomen, and I will teach you the three most basic breathing techniques."

(End of this chapter)